Published date: 14 January 2025

Last edited date: 29 January 2025

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 17 February 2025

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

  • Surgical specialist services - 85121300

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Procurement reference

713759454

Published date

14 January 2025

Closing date

17 February 2025

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Deploying military surgeons and perioperative care practitioners require training to deliver military damage control surgery in austere environments. This type of surgery is not practiced in civilian UK facilities or taught through training programs.

The Military Operational Specialist Team Training (MOSTT) Course delivers contextualised cadaveric surgical skills training to deploying surgeons and perioperative care practitioners.

Aims:

- To teach whole body damage control surgery as it is delivered in
the military environment.

- Develop team working between surgeons and perioperative care
practitioners to deliver technical surgical skills alongside
complex decision making in an austere environment.

Methodology:

Cadaveric based training for surgeons and perioperative care practitioners. The course covers major cavity damage control surgery procedures, peripheral injury to the limbs, junctional injuries, head and neck trauma. Senior military surgical faculty deliver a robust programme of technical training based on real life military cases, with aspects of assessment and feedback to improve individual and team performance. Materiel in terms of surgical equipment and consumables reflect those of the deployed environment to improve the immersive of nature of the course.

Basic requirements:

- Capacity to deliver a 6 table/cadaver course over 3 days planned at
2 courses per year with the ability to expand to 4 courses appear if
operational requirement dictates.
- Capacity for 24 candidates and 12 faculty to have an adjacent rest
area with catering over 3 days.
- Ability to manage logistic requirements of the course.

Please refer to the PDF attachment (713759454 - MOSTT RFI) for more detailed information regarding this RFI.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Kelvin Edwards

Address

Whitehall
LONDON
SW1A2HB
England

Telephone

+443001661498

Email

kelvin.edwards109@mod.gov.uk